Michael Leach

Michael J. Leach is an Australian poet, critic and academic who lives and works on unceded Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Michael’s poems have appeared in journals such as Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry, websites such as Stereo Stories, exhibitions such as the Antarctic Poetry Exhibition, anthologies such as Poetry d’Amour 2022 (WA Poets Inc., 2022), and his two poetry books: Chronicity (Melbourne Poets Union, 2020) and Natural Philosophies (Recent Work Press, 2022). Michael has performed his poetry at functions, events, conferences and festivals, including the Stereo Stories Concert at Bendigo Writers Festival 2021. In 2022, Michael jointly won the poetry category of the inaugural Minds Shine Bright Confidence Writing Competition.